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Cultural Tourism is one of the most important and rapidly expanding economic and social phenomena of the contemporary world. The Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change (CTCC) at Leeds Metropolitan University is a global leader in research and education regarding tourism and its relationships to culture(s).
The MA Cultural Tourism offers:
- An interdisciplinary and international perspective on tourism and culture allowing you to develop an informed position in contemporary theoretical debates and applied policy programmes.
- A research led programme based upon the extensive experience and international work of the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change.
- Excellent links with regional, national and international organisations working in the tourism and culture field.
- The opportunity to work on a ‘live’ case study relating to the cultural sector where you will be able to develop your own interests and skills.
- The opportunity for you to develop your research and analytical skills which will equip you for future leadership roles in the diverse and dynamic field of cultural tourism and/or develop your interests by undertaking a PhD at the prestigious Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change.
Leeds Metropolitan University has one of the largest groupings of tourism researchers in the world in the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change and the International Centre for Responsible Tourism.
Through course modules you will be able to study: The structures and dynamics of international tourism; the social practices and performances of tourists; international tourism policy; the relationships between tourism and concepts of modernity, globalisation and colonialism; tangible and intangible heritage and their management; the role of museums and the ways by which cultures are represented; festivals and cultural events; culture and regeneration; tourism as a means of intercultural dialogue.
Modules include: Tourism and Tourists; Cosmopolitanism and Cultures of Mobility; Researching Cultural Tourism; Representing and Displaying Culture; Managing Heritage; Tourism, Media and Cultural Flows; Tourism, Festivals and Cultural Events; Cultural Tourism Case Study
For further information and an application form please email to Dr Philip Long at culturaltourism@leedsmet.ac.uk. Or visit our website for further details: www.tourism-culture.com and follow postgraduate studies.
This August, China is hosting the Olympic Games. This will offer an unparalleled opportunity to have a long, hard look at the world’s fastest emerging power.
During the Olympics the Liverpool Shanghai Partnership in association with the Liverpool Daily Post will stage a talk on the future of China for the city’s business community. The event will take place at the Athenaeum Club on August 13 between 12.30 and 2pm. Places must be pre-booked in advance at a cost of £15. This includes a light buffet lunch and drinks.
At the event Dr Kerry Brown the Executive Director of the Liverpool Shanghai Partnership, and Senior Fellow, Chatham House, will examine the key issues. What China means for our economic prosperity in the coming decades, and for the very sustainability of our civilization. Brown believes the rise of China poses immense challenges, but also offers extraordinary new opportunities. His talk will put China’s rise in context, and explain why, for companies and organisations in Liverpool, whatever their sector, China matters.
In the space of thirty years, China has gone from being one of the world’s most enclosed, cut off countries, with extremely limited contact with the outside world, to being its third largest economy, its second largest trading nation, its largest attractor of Foreign Investment, and the largest holder of foreign reserves. China is the second largest user of oil after the US, and uses 40% of the world’s steel, copper and iron. 25% of the pollution we breathe comes from China, but the goods it manufactures fills our shops and has saved us, as consumers, a hundred billion dollars in the last two decades. 70 thousand Chinese are studying at our universities in the UK, and there are half a billion Chinese users of mobile phones, and 200 billion users of the internet.
The exposure this remarkable country – a fifth of humanity – will get in August will also make it a good time to think through what the impact of China and its increasing role in the global economy will mean for our lives, in the UK and Liverpool, in the coming century. China is at the crossroads. It now needs to develop from being a manufacturing economy, to a developed service economy. it is hungry for technology, and it is taking stakes in w estern companies like BP, Rio Tinto, and Total, through its sovereign wealth funds. Barclays, IBM, Blackstone, and MG Rover all have one thing in common – Chinese companies have a stake in them. China as an outward investor is a wholly new phenomenon – but something that can only increase in size and importance in the years ahead.
Dr Kerry Brown has worked as a diplomat in China, commented on China for BBC, ITN, CNN and Bloomberg, and written about China in the Telegraph, Independent, and Guardian. He is author of `Struggling Giant, China in the 21st Century’ and is currently working on a history of the Chinese Communist Party. He is the Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Associate Fellow of the China Policy Institute at Nottingham University, and Committee member of the Great Britain China Centre, the 48 Group Club, and the British Association of Chinese Studies.
Please rsvp to Sarah.zhang@l-s-p.org.uk or 0151 794 8055
Perception and wellbeing: a cross-disciplinary approach to experiencing art in the museum
Can the viewing of publically displayed art improve or even change lives? This project aims to combine approaches from neuroscience, aesthetics and anthropology to explore, contextualise and explain art perception and response, and short- and long-term impacts on well-being, in public display spaces. Combining data collected using an eye-tracker with ethnographic observations, the project will transgress existing disciplinary boundaries in studying the perception of art objects, and form a new framework for research in this area. The project will contribute to understanding of the impact of public art across a range of academic subjects and in museum and gallery practice.
We invite applications from outstanding graduates for a full-time, three-year PhD studentship, starting in October 2008. The project will be co-supervised by Dr Sandra Dudley & Prof Rodrigo Quian Quiroga at the University of Leicester, and David Barrie, Director of The Art Fund, the UK’s leading independent art charity.
Further information on the project and details of how to apply can be found at:
http://www.le.ac.uk/museumstudies
To discuss the project informally, please contact Dr Sandra Dudley at:
This is one of six studentships awarded nationally under the AHRC’s Beyond Text programme. Candidates must meet the AHRC’s academic and other eligibility criteria (see ‘Guide for Applicants for Postgraduate Awards in the Arts and Humanities: The Doctoral Awards Scheme’ on www.ahrc.ac.uk). The studentship covers fees and the standard AHRC annual maintenance grant, plus an additional annual £1,500 maintenance payment provided by the AHRC and the Art Fund.
The deadline for Applications is Friday 4 July 2008. Candidates may be required to attend for interview on Monday 14 July 2008.
Goldsmiths, University of London is delighted to announce the launch of its new MA in Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship. The programme is aimed at those looking to develop a business arising from an existing creative practice, or those who want to understand how to create the infrastructure and environment for new creative businesses to flourish. The programme involves unique business modeling practice and work placement opportunities.
Those wishing to find out more can visit:
<http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/pg/ma-creative-cultural-entrepreneurship.php>
The European Cultural Foundation, the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond and the European Network of Cultural Administration and Training Centres (ENCATC) call for applications for the 5th Cultural Policy Research Award 2008. The winner of the CPR Award 2008, worth Euro 10,000, will be publicly announced on the 16th of October at the International ENCATC Annual Conference taking place in Lyon, France.
Designed to stimulate academic and applied cultural policy research and to explore, through comparative cross-national research, issues at stake in contemporary Europe, and possibly anticipate new cultural policy orientations, the Cultural Policy Research Award (CPRA) has the ambition to contribute to the process of creating an “infrastructure”, a network of scholars who are competent in doing comparative research projects in cultural policy.
Open to young – 35 or under – academics, researchers and policymakers from all European countries, the Award was launched for the first time in 2004 and has been running as a pilot project for four years (2004-2007). Issues covered so far range from the raison d’être of a European cultural policy, creative industries in South-East Europe, comparison of trends in funding, governance and organizational structure of live classical music organizations, and issues of diversity and the commodification of culture in the cultural industries (focus on architecture, fashion and music).
For the year 2008, applications must be submitted by 23 May 2008 through the online application form on the CPR Award website:
Before applying, candidates are strongly advised to consult the website for advice on how to prepare their applications. For more information, contact:
Rosa DIAZ DOMINGUEZ
CPR Award Coordinator, Promotion and Press Contact
Arts Council England and IFACCA are looking to collate examples of good practice in supporting artists or arts organisations with creative and practical responses to ecological concerns (such as environmental sustainability and climate change), and to identify potential partners with whom to develop work in this area.
To participate, contact John Hartley, Arts Council England, at:
john.hartley@artscouncil.org.uk
URL: http://www.artscouncil.org.uk
CONTEXT: Supporting best practice for arts organisations– international models
Legislation in the UK is set to provide increasingly stringent obligations on organisations to manage their carbon emissions responsibly. It is apparent that the arts sector itself feels it is increasingly important to adopt or even lead best practice in this area. Arts Council England (ACE) strongly supports the development and adoption of organisational best practice regarding the mitigation of, and adaptation to, climate change, both for itself as an organisation and for its portfolio of funded organisations.
